CYBERLAW AND E-COMMERCE

Chapter 1

Jeffrey Pittman, Cyberlaw & E-Commerce 2010

Topic #1Business Examples

In group settings Identify a real or hypothetical business, Identify several of the important intangible

assets owned by the business, and Describe the basic legal protections available

in the U.S. for the assets See Exhibit 1.2, textbook page 10, and the

following four slides

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Traditional Business Assets

Tangible Assets

Buildings

Inventory

Other tangible Assets

Accounts Receivable

Cash

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Non-tangible Assets

Intellectual Property

Copyrights

Trade Secrets

PatentsTrademarks

Other IP

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IFRS 3

The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are standards, interpretations and the framework adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)

The following slide is a snapshot of Brand Finance’s presentation of IFRS 3

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Topic #2Federalism

Using the results from Topic #1, above, discuss the interaction of federal and state laws as illustrated in Exhibit 1.3 and 1.4, textbook pages 14 and 16

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Topic #3Free Speech

Apply the First Amendment, free speech (textbook pages 20-23) , to the Google/China dispute below No Sign Other Companies Will Emulate Google

’s Stand Over China Clinton talk may signal China-Google dire

ction

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Topic #4Food for Thought

Consider the following quotation (taken for a larger statement about the topic) from Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson

“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

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Thomas Jefferson

“That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."

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Thomas Jefferson

Source:  THOMAS JEFFERSON, POLITICAL WRITINGS (Joyce Appleby, Joyce Oldham Appleby &Terence Ball, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 1999), p. 580

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